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Contents 6
Figures 7
Tables 8
Acknowledgements 10
1. Introduction 12
Fundamental transformations 12
Convergence and polarisation in gender relations 13
New developments in gender relations 13
Theorising the diversity of gender regimes 16
Space 18
Time 19
The gendered economy 23
The polity and the economy 25
Politics 28
Citizenship 30
Europe 31
2. Recent changes in gender relations in employment 33
Introduction 33
Growth of women's paid employment 38
Changes in men's employment 40
Wage inequality 44
Part-time work 45
Segregation 50
Summary of changes 54
Causes of changes 56
Legal and organisational changes 57
Education changes 60
The reducing impact of the domestic on women's paid employment 76
Age 85
Class 92
Ethnicities 95
Spatial unevenness 98
Conclusions 98
3. Flexibility and the changing sexual division of labour 101
Introduction 101
Atkinson's model 103
Atkinson's model and gender 104
Core/periphery 104
For 106
Against 107
Environmental change 109
Contradictions between different forms of flexibility 111
Rounds of gender restructuring 112
Conclusion 115
4. Localities and gender restructuring 117
Introduction 117
Five localities 121
Variations in gender composition 122
Changes 1981-91 125
Women's part-time employment 127
Socio-economic groups 129
Industrial sectors 133
Localities and gender restructuring 137
Order-level analysis 137
Conclusion 139
5. Sex segregation in local labour markets 142
Introduction 142
Horizontal or industrial segregation 145
Vertical segregation 151
Conclusions 165
6. Labour markets and industrial structures in women's working lives 167
Introduction 167
Domestic versus labour market explanations 167
Lancaster women's work histories 169
Methodological issues 170
Domestic versus labour market explanations 173
Deindustrialisation and the experience of the labour market 175
Part-time, full-time and industrial sector 180
Occupational change 181
The experience of deindustrialisation 184
Political and legal changes 184
Conclusions 185
7. Gender politics and social theory 187
Introduction 187
Four approaches to political sociology 187
Women's political behaviour as exceptional individuals 189
Women's political behaviour as collectively exceptional 191
Women's movements 191
'New social movements' 192
Radical women's movements as exceptional 194
Limitations of the third approach 195
Pushing back the horizons on feminist politics 199
New questions 202
Other feminisms 202
Implications 203
8. 'Backlash' to feminism 206
Introduction 206
The backlash 207
Why did first-wave feminism end? 209
Successful conclusion 209
Organisational failure 210
Backlash 211
Continuation 212
Changes in the form 213
Conclusions 215
9. Is citizenship gendered? 216
Introduction 216
Marshall's heritage 216
Women and citizenship 222
How important is citizenship for gender? 225
Civil citizenship 225
Political citizenship 226
Social citizenship 226
Economic citizenship? 227
Conclusions 228
10. Woman and nation 230
Introduction 230
Gender, nation and nationalism 231
To what extent do women share the same national project as men? 238
Nationalism and women 239
Critical period of state formation or rounds of restructuring? 240
Women, militarism and nationalism 241
Boundaries for gender relations 243
Women, nation and Europe 244
Feminism, nationalism and Westernisation 245
Conclusions 246
11. Gender and European Union integration: towards a political economy of gender 248
Introduction 248
European union integration 250
Deregulation, competitiveness and the single European market 251
Social cohesion and European Union social policy 252
Theoretical development 255
Politics and economics 256
Diversity and equal treatment 257
Post-Fordism 258
Social policy as employment policy 261
Conclusions 262
Appendix: Labour markets with female majorities in employees in employment, 1991 264
Bibliography 270
Index 309